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Events from the year 1890 in Ireland.

Events

  • 30 April – James Connolly marries Lillie Reynolds in Perth, Scotland.
  • 20 June – the newly covered St George's Market in Belfast is opened to the public.
  • 16 July - Academics Alfred Cort Haddon and Andrew Francis Dixon (Dixon later became Professor of Anatomy at Trinity College Dublin), remove the partial skeletal remains of 13 people, including their skulls, from St Colman's monastery on the island of Inishbofin, County Galway (without the knowledge or permission of the community) for the purposes of studying craniometry.
  • July – the new Guildhall (Victoria Hall) in Derry, financed by The Honourable The Irish Society, is opened.
  • 17 November – Captain Willy O'Shea divorces his wife, Kitty, and wins custody of their children. Charles Stewart Parnell is named as the co-respondent.
  • 25 November – despite his personal problems Parnell is re-elected as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
  • 26 November – Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone announces that as long as Parnell remains as leader of the Party, the next general election will be lost and Home Rule for Ireland will be impossible.
  • 6 December – after five days of discussion and argument about Parnell's leadership, 44 members of the Irish Parliamentary Party walk out of the meeting and withdraw from the Party, most going on to form the Irish National Federation. Parnell is left with only 28 supporters in the Irish National League.
  • Seapoint tragedy: James O'Connor's wife and four of their daughters die after eating contaminated mussels.
  • Albert Bridge, Belfast is completed.
  • Dublin Museum of Science and Art opens.
  • The parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Ennis becomes pro-cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
  • The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is founded.
  • A study finds that the most common Irish surnames are Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan and Walshe.

Arts and literature

  • July – Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray first published, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (London).
  • 13 December – W. B. Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree first published, in The National Observer (London).
  • Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire first published.

Sport

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Football

  • ;International
  • :8 February Wales 5–2 Ireland (in Shrewsbury)
  • :15 March Ireland 1–9 England (in Belfast)